Minister for Multicultural Affairs Anne Aly has labelled the weekend's mass anti-immigration marches a 'con'.

She says fringe groups preyed on Australians, some of whom had legitimate concerns around housing and cost of living, in order to propagate anti-immigration and racist agendas.

In Melbourne, known neo-Nazi's attended the rally, with one leader addressing crowds at the podium on the state parliament steps. 

Multicultural communities have raised concerns, and experts are worried about the strategies far-right groups are using to attract ordinary Australians. 

The Breakfast Wrap hears from federal government minister Anne Aly and her Coalition counterpart.

Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.

Could you name the best book of the 21st century? Or at least 10 of your favourites?

That's the challenge set — ahead of ABC Radio National's Top 100 Books.

Guest: Claire Nichols presents The Book Show on Radio National 

The latest national statistics show Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2 per cent. But for Australians with autism, the figure soars to above 30 per cent.

This is something Australian Spatial Analytics is hoping to turn around... With offices in Brisbane and Melbourne, 80 per cent of its workforce is neurodivergent. 

• Guest: Geoffrey Smith, co-founder Australian Spatial Analytics

The federal government is hoping its cheaper medicines bill — to reduce the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme co-payment to 25-dollars — passes the Senate today.

But does it have the support of the Greens?

Guest: Jordon Steele-John, Greens spokesperson for Health & Mental Health, plus Disability Inclusion and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

The March for Australia rallies were condemned by the Opposition Leader Sussan Ley before they took place ... she called for respect, tolerance, and a sense of community.

The rallies went on to be addressed by federal MPs Bob Katter and Pauline Hanson. 

• Guest: Paul Scarr, Shadow Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Minister

Thousands of people have participated in the so called Marches for Australia across the nation's largest cities.

There was also a clear neo-Nazi presence at several of the larger rallies, including in Melbourne where leader Thomas Sewell spoke on the steps of Victoria's Parliament House.Guest: Anne Aly, Minister for Multicultural Affairs 

Almost two years after the High Court ruled that ongoing detention of an unlawful non-citizen with no reasonable prospect of removal was unconstitutional, the Albanese government has inked a $408 million deal with Nauru to resettle hundreds of non-citizens caught up in the so-called NZYQ decision.

The deal comes despite ongoing legal challenges to the government's attempt to resettle three members of the NZYQ cohort in Nauru.

• Guest: Abul Rizvi, former deputy secretary of the department of immigration 
• Producer: Grace Stranger

Confidential documents leaked to the ABC and correspondence obtained under Freedom of Information by the Northern Territory Environment Centre have revealed the full scale of a major methane leak in Darwin.

Confidential documents leaked to the ABC and correspondence obtained under Freedom of Information by the Northern Territory Environment Centre have revealed the full scale of a major methane leak in Darwin.

A design fault in a Liquefied Natural Gas tank has been causing the leak which pumped out emissions estimated to be the equivalent of adding 8,300 new cars to the road every year.

And while the tank is now empty, it's expected to be back in use later this year as part of the $5.6 billion Barossa project. But will the tank be replaced or repaired?

• Guest: Kirsty Howey, Executive Director of the Environment Centre Northern Territory 
• Producers: Grace Stranger and Eddy Diamond

The NT Environmental Protection Authority provided a statement to the ABC: "The decision whether to repair the leak is a commercial decision made by Santos. The fugitive emissions do not include toxicants regulated by the NT EPA. While methane is a greenhouse gas, it is not considered to pose a risk to human health or the environment at the level of current emissions." 

After 139 days, five hours and 52 minutes, Scottish brothers Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean are finally on solid ground — setting a new world record for the fastest full, unassisted, non-stop Pacific row from Lima, Peru to Cairns, Australia.

• Guest: Jamie Maclean, Scottish rowing brother
• Producer: Grace Stranger

Political rivals in Thailand are now jockeying for power after the Constitutional Court dismissed the Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinwatra on Friday, finding that she'd violated the country's ethics standards.

She is the sixth Thai premier to be ousted from power who has either been backed by or from the Shinawatra family.  

Two political camps have now declared they're ready to form the next government but it's unclear when or how that will happen.

• Guest: Dr Greg Raymond, senior lecturer at the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
• Producer: Anne Barker